Thursday, May 01, 2008
1st May. Read all about it - car accident.
Hello - today has been a horrendous journey day.
No - not traffic jams, though we might have been part of causing a small disturbance.
We have been involved in a really quite nasty traffic accident.
Let's look on the good side. The occupants of the 3 cars involved were all walking and reasonably fit, even though the vehicles were not.
Our car most definitely came off the worst.
We had slowed to a halt behind a car turning right on a country road.
Unfortunately the Range Rover travelling behind us did not stop but crashed into us with a mighty force.
It pushed us forward and we hit the car in front and then we shot across the road to the other side heading rapidly towards a hedge above a steep drop down to a stream.
We actually stopped in the hedge with the stream below us.
The driver of the Range Rover came over saying how very sorry she was - admitting responsibilty for what had happened.
Then police, ambulances and a fire engine arrived. Everybody was kind and professional and in particular a couple who stopped to help.
The ambulance men checked us over. I have pains across my chest which the ambulance men assume to be caused by the seat belt - but of course thank goodness that we always wear our seat belts. They say the pains will get worse and take time to heal.
They took pulse and blood pressure - both our levels were raised - mine by quite a lot. It was even higher than Bill's! When normally my levels are very low.
The police breathalysed all the drivers - Bill of course had had no alcohol.
We could have opted to be checked out in a hospital, but the ambulance men thought that probably it wasn't necessary.
After that we were got out of the way really. The plice took us to a hotel on the A55. We had phoned Ashley - not a car owner, so he could do nothing. We phoned Pete and Jean who thankfully could come and rescue us - about an hour and a half's drive from their home.
The hotel people were very kind and looked after us well.
The car is almost certainly a write off.
We took from it what was needed for tonight.
Bill and Pete will drive back almost to Chester tomorrow where it has been taken to a secure car pound.
They can get everything else out of the car.
And that may well be the last we see of it.
Then comes the job of hiring a car to get home and to try and continue with some sort of normal life.
One horrible, horrible moment takes a lot of sorting out and will no doubt cost us quite a lot of money.
Though we are hoping that the lady at fault's insurance company will pay out. I am sure our company hope that too.
As soon as we know for sure that the car is a write off we will have to start the process of replacing it.
But for now we are here with Ashley, Liz and Ekatarina (now in bed of course) and all the people involved are living to tell the tale. The damage was just to large metal boxes on wheels.
I hope that Mayday has been better for you.
By the way I did have the sense to take a few pctures!
Goodnight.
No - not traffic jams, though we might have been part of causing a small disturbance.
We have been involved in a really quite nasty traffic accident.
Let's look on the good side. The occupants of the 3 cars involved were all walking and reasonably fit, even though the vehicles were not.
Our car most definitely came off the worst.
We had slowed to a halt behind a car turning right on a country road.
Unfortunately the Range Rover travelling behind us did not stop but crashed into us with a mighty force.
It pushed us forward and we hit the car in front and then we shot across the road to the other side heading rapidly towards a hedge above a steep drop down to a stream.
We actually stopped in the hedge with the stream below us.
The driver of the Range Rover came over saying how very sorry she was - admitting responsibilty for what had happened.
Then police, ambulances and a fire engine arrived. Everybody was kind and professional and in particular a couple who stopped to help.
The ambulance men checked us over. I have pains across my chest which the ambulance men assume to be caused by the seat belt - but of course thank goodness that we always wear our seat belts. They say the pains will get worse and take time to heal.
They took pulse and blood pressure - both our levels were raised - mine by quite a lot. It was even higher than Bill's! When normally my levels are very low.
The police breathalysed all the drivers - Bill of course had had no alcohol.
We could have opted to be checked out in a hospital, but the ambulance men thought that probably it wasn't necessary.
After that we were got out of the way really. The plice took us to a hotel on the A55. We had phoned Ashley - not a car owner, so he could do nothing. We phoned Pete and Jean who thankfully could come and rescue us - about an hour and a half's drive from their home.
The hotel people were very kind and looked after us well.
The car is almost certainly a write off.
We took from it what was needed for tonight.
Bill and Pete will drive back almost to Chester tomorrow where it has been taken to a secure car pound.
They can get everything else out of the car.
And that may well be the last we see of it.
Then comes the job of hiring a car to get home and to try and continue with some sort of normal life.
One horrible, horrible moment takes a lot of sorting out and will no doubt cost us quite a lot of money.
Though we are hoping that the lady at fault's insurance company will pay out. I am sure our company hope that too.
As soon as we know for sure that the car is a write off we will have to start the process of replacing it.
But for now we are here with Ashley, Liz and Ekatarina (now in bed of course) and all the people involved are living to tell the tale. The damage was just to large metal boxes on wheels.
I hope that Mayday has been better for you.
By the way I did have the sense to take a few pctures!
Goodnight.
